Dump-car.



W. H. YOST.

DUMP CAR. APPLICATION FILED Nov.16, 1911.

Patented Sept. 9, 1913.

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W. H. YOST.

DUMP GAR. APPLICATION FILED NOV.16, 1911-.

Patented: sept. 9, 1913.

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'onirico sTATns WINriEIm HANCOCK Yosr, or MONTREAL, QUEBEC, CANADA,AssrGNon 'ro NATIONAL DUMP CAR COMPANY., OFCHICAGO, ILLINOLES, ACORPORATION OF MAINE.

DUMP-CAR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed November'l, 1911. Serial No.'66),703.

To 'c'ZZ lwhom it may concern:

Be it knownlthatl, WINFIELD HANCOCK Yos'i-, of the city of Montreal', inlthe Province of' Quebec, Canada, a citizen of the United States, haveinvented certain` new and` useful Improvements. lin Dump-Cars `:and l dohereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and 'exactdescription of the same. 4

This invention relates more particularly to dump cars having movablegravity1 dumping members adapted to be controlledy rby operatingmechanism operable from the end of the car, the invention being`especially 'designed 'for application to a car-of the type havinglongitudinally extending sha'ftsllocated beneath and adapted to operategravity dump doors and whose ends, to which the' operating mechanism isap-` plied, are located adjacent the -ends of the car.

The invention' has for an objectto pro-l yide in connection with aneasily accessible dump member operatin g mechanism, means for protectingsuch mechanism vfrom linf jury due to shocks, as When the corners of thecars are bumped, or from push poles.

For further comprehension ofthe invention, and of the 'objects 'andadvantages thereof, referencewll be had to the following description andappended claims, and

to the accompanying drawings forming part of this specification in whichsimilar reference characters indicate the same parts and wherein- Figure1` is-an end elevation of a car having the inventionapplied thereto.Fig. 2 is a horizontal View of the end portion of the car, one half theview being in )lan and the other half in section on the i-ne 2 2 Fig. 1.

of the is a detail cross section of the floating stirrup link,illustrating articularly the manbly thereon, the view being taken' online 5 5 Fig. l; Fig. '6 is a detail horizontal section on the line G 6Fig. 1; and Fig. 7- lis a detail perspective ViewAillustratingparticularly the operating gear.

In the drawings I have shown o'n'e end -in vthe-end sill are indicatedat S.

them to reciprocate laterally Fig; '3 is a detail transverse verticalsection taken on the .line 3 3 Fig. 2. 'Fig 4 is a detail perspectiveview "operating gear protecting device. lFig. 5

nerof mounting the ocking paWl reversi- O nly of a dump car as suchshowing is considered sufficient to properly illustrate the PatentedSept. 9, 1913.

invention, it being obvious that the construction herein illustrated canbe dupli- :cated on the other end of the car when desirable. v

Referrin` now tothe ld-rav'vings the end wall of a "ump car hopper isshown at l and a portion of the side walls at 2, a part of theunderstructure comprising a center sill 3, side sills 4 and end sill '5being also shown. A pair of dump doors are indicated at 6, one at eachside of the center sill, such doors being hinged at their inner' -oradjacent edgesin any suitable manner to swing inwardly and downwardlywhen opening, the end portions of a pair of laterally 'movable shaftswhich are the type here shown to operate `the vdoors being shown atA 7,while the inclined shaft supporting rails These shafts act upon thedoors in a well known nia-nner while "the detail construction of theabove mentioned parts may be of usual or 'approved type and forms nopart of my invent-ion and is therefore not considered necessary todescribe in detail as the invention relates chiefiy to the protecting ofsuch mechanism from injury and. strengthening the car corners, some ofAthe details of the mechanism for rotating the shafts to causepresenting also novel features. The operating means here shown by whichthese lshafts 7 are reciprocated laterally along the rails 8 comprises alever 15 freely mounted Aat one end thereon and carrying a pawl 16adapted to engage a ratchet wheel 17 fixed on the shaft ,to rotate thelatter, a chain 18 winding on the shaftas the latter is-rotated andcausingg it to thereby travel 'along the rail in member Q0 havingone endbent tov U-shape as shown and freely mounted on the shaft |and havingits ropposite end pivotally connected as at 921 to one end lof a linkbar 22 whose other end is pivoted to a bracket y 23' i'ivete'l` on thevend sill 5,v the link 20 carrying alocking pawl '24- adapted tovengagea second ratchet Wheel 25,?1'50 fig-ld the shaft "Y, the U-s'haped endof the and ratchet wheels.

link forming astirrup inclosing the lever This U-shape construc.

tion of the end of the link protects -the .secure the advantage link bymeans of a bracket 26 having one end bentto U-shape to form a stirrup 26in which the head of the pawl is placed, the opposite end of the bracket26 being perforated and secured to the link by a bolt or rivet 27passing through the perforated end of thebracket and one of a pair ofopenings 28 in the link and which are spaced equally on opposite sidesof the median line thereof,

the pawl being pivoted on a boltor rivet 29 passing through theperforated legs of the stirr'up and the other onevof the' said openingsin the link.

, It will be noted that the bracket 26 may be 'readily reversed inposition as indicated in Fig. l according to the lside of the-car onwhich the link is to be placed, thus renderl ing right and leftconstruction for the links 'on opposite sides of thecar unnecessary.

,The operating gear just described is lo`- cated outside of theend sill(the end of the shaft projecting through the usual slot 5b therein) inorder to make it easily accessible and to facilitate operation-thereof.Here fore however, the advantage derived from so locating the operatinggear has been'to a considerable extent o set by its liability to injuryfrom grner shocksor from other causes because of its exposedposition. Toobviate this difiiculty and'at the same time ble operating gear I-haveextended the corner of the car longitudinally beyond the end sill'in amanner to'pr'otect the operating gear and also to strengthen the cornerof the car'against shocks. This corner extension preferably comprises aplate 30 bent into channel form with a short Vfiange or leg 30 and alonger flange or leg 30a and placed vertically in positlon'projectinglongitudij nally of the car from the end sill with the l this channelplate, and

and bracing plate 32 flanges turned inwardly toward the center of thecar,

the shorter flange being placed against and riveted to the outer faceofthe end sill at the corner of the car, the body of the plate beingouter end of the sill.

`The lower edge of particularly of the a bottom lconnecting ofrectangular. shape i-ange 30, is braced by edge of the etiang'e 30,

of the easily accessi-- preferably lush withthe vand adapted to 'incloset having one side tnrnedup to forma ange 33 to 4which is riveted edge ofthe flange 30 of the plate 30, the said lower edge of the'iange 30 beingpreferably ona level withv and inclined similarly to the bottom edge ofthe end sill 5. The opposite side of the bottom plate 32 extends underand is riveted to 5a of the end sill 5. 'The plate 32 is thus inclinedsimilarly to the inclination of thel bottom-of the end si-ll, thisinclination of the plate preventing any material such as snow,`

ice, or material spilled over'the end of the car, from lodging on thethe operating gear. Of the two remainin sides of the plate 32 the innerside (or that near the center line of the car) is bent to -form adownwardly projecting stiifening flange 35 while the opposite sideisturned upwardly to form a flange 36.which overlaps and is riveted to thebottom ofthe corner gusset lplate 37 of the car.

as at 34 the lower.

the bottom angle bark plate and clogging.

The upper edge of the channel plateiis braced' by-'a longitudinallydisposed angle l bar having a comparatively narrow vertical flange 40riveted as at 41 to the inner face of the corner gussetplate37, andawider 'i inwardly projecting horizontal iange 42 riveted at its outere'nd as at 43 to the horizontal liange 44 of a transversely eX-.

tending angle bar whose vertical lfiange 45 overlaps and is-riveted 'asat 46 to the top the flange 42 extending longitudinally across the topof the space between. the ianges 30 and 30 and being riveted to thevtop'oflthe end sill 5. As will beseen from the drawings the width ofthe flange 42 is less than that of theiange 30 to allow of operativemovement of the is adjacent the outer lever when the `shaft theoperating gear is end of therail 8 and inclosed by the protectingstructure, the bottom plate 32 preferablybeing of atransverse widthequal to that of the flange 30* in order to properly brace the' latter.i

It will be noted that in addition to forming a protecting cover for `theoperating gear the v above described structure also strengthens y...thecorner of 'the car against shocks.

I claim*- 1. Av dump car having dump member clp' y erating mechanismlocated outside the bo of the car, andan inclosing structure for suchmechanism secured to the body of the car and having an opening to permitof.lat

eral movement of the dump member operating. mechanism, such openingbeing i actiessible from the exterior` of the car. l

2. In a dump car, an end sill, laterally movable dump member operatingmecha'- nism located at the outer side ofl such end sill, and aprotecting structure secured to the car and extending lon itudinallythereof e said operating 'mechanism such structure having one side said'operating mechanism. 'i

3. A dump car havingancnd 'sillcomprising an integral Ymember extendingfrom a point adjacent the center of the ear trans-r versely to the carside, laterally' movable operating mechanism located attlie outer sideof such and. sill, and an inclosing structure separate from and bracedby such end sill and projecting longitudinally therebeyond to inclosethe said operating 4. ln a dump car, the combination With the end sillthereof, of a vertically disposed channel plate with inwardly projectingflanges having one 'fla-nge secured to `the end sill, such plateextending longitudinally of the car beyond the end sill, and top andbottom bracing members extending between the other flange of the channelplate and the end sill.

5. In a dump car, the combination with the end sill thereof, ofa,vertically disposed channel -plate With inwardly projecting flangeshaving one flange secured to the end sill, such plateextendinglongitudinally of the car beyond the end sill, and top and bottombracing members extending between the other flange of the channel plateand the end sill, the lower bracing member being inclined, the topbracing member being of lesser transverse Width tl a. the secondmentioned flange to canse ne lattr to project inv'vardly therebeyond,the bottoni mem ber being of a. transverse width substann tially thesame as that of the said second mentioned ange. i

6. ln a dump car, an end sill, dump member operating mechanism locatedat the outer side of such end sill, and a box like structure-secured tothe corner of the car and extending longitudinally thereof and adaptedto inclose the said operating mechanism, such structure having itstransverse innerl side and the adjacent portion of the top thereof open.

7. ln a dump car, an end sill, dump mem-.

ber operating mechanism located at the` outer side of such end sill andincluding a lever, and a lboa like structure secured to t the corner ofthevcar and extending long tudinally thereof and adapted to inclose t-hesaid operating mechanism, such structure having its transverse inner'side and the adjacent portion of the to thereof open to permit-of themovement o. the lever.

8. 'In a dump car, an end sill, dump memberv operating mechanism locatedat the outer side of such end sill, and a box like structuresecured tothe car and extending longitudinally thereof and adapted to inclose thesaid operating mechanism, such structure having one side open and thebottom thereof inclined.

9. In 'a4 dump car, the combination with a bodily movable sha-ft, andoperating mechanism applied thereto, of locking mechanism includingaHeating plate having one endbent'to U-form to inclose lthe said op-`erating mechanism.l

l0.` ln a dump'car, the combinationy with a bodily movable shaft, andoperating and..

locking mechanism on said shaft, of a one piece stirrup mounted on suchshaft to prevent longitudinal displacement of the said operatingmechanism.

1l. llna dump car, in combination, a laterally movable dump dooroperating shaft, a lever for operating such shaft, to move itin onedirection, of means for locking the shaft against reverse movement,including a ratchet wheel rigid upon the shaft, a link pivotally mountedat one end upon such shaft, a 'lockingp'avvl carried-by the said'. linkand adapted to engage the said ratchet,-

a second link pivotally secured at respective ends to the other end ofthe first mentioned link and to the car, such links normally disposedangularly toward one another, and means preventing such links deadcentering. Y

l2. ln a dump car, in combination a laterally movable dump dooroperating shaft, a ratchet Wheel fixed upon such shaft, an operatinglever, a pavvl carried by the lever and adapted to engage thesaidratchet, a

second ratchet .Wheel rigid upon the shaftadjacent theA said lever, alink pivotally mounted uponthe shaft, a locking pawl carried thereby andadapted to engage the second mentioned ratchet Wheel, the said linkhaving the end thereof mounted upon the shaft bent to vU-form -to form astirrup inclosing the said lever and ratchet Wheels, andvmeansconnecting the said link to the car to permit of movement thereof lwith.

the said shaft.

13. The combination. With the door op erating shaft, and the ratchetWheel iXed thereon, of a member pivoted thereto, a pawl adapted toengage the said ratchet Wheel, a bracket coacting With the said memberin carrying the said p a'Wl, and means providing a reversible connectionbetween the said bracket and member Whereby the position of the paWl.with respect to the member may be reversed.

lll. The combination with Vvthe door operating. shaft and the ratchetWheel fixed thereon, of the link 20 pivoted on such shaft and having theperforations' equally spaced on opposite sides of its median line, thereversible bracket 26 having one end 26 bent to stirrup form, the bolts27 passing through the other end of the bracket and one of thesaidperforations'in' the link to secure the bracket tothe link, the pawll24: adapted to engage-the said ratchet Wheel, and the -bolt 29 uponwhich the 'pawliis pivoted, suchbolt passing through th'ejleg's of thesaid sti rrup andthe other perforarn In testimonyl whereof tion in thelink. name to this specification, l5. In a dump oar, 1atera11y-movab1eof two subscribing witness dump member operating mechanism located WINFIELD 5 outsidethe end si11 thereof and a, c'oveung Witnesses:

ALEX FRED J. SEARS.

,. I 'have signed HANCOCK YOST.

`.in the presence

